Fun Weekend Finds!

These are some of my treasures from a little weekend getaway 

with Mr. AJS.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Happy Week!

February Treasures

A day of Antiques Mall hopping,

lunch with my hubby and my favorite college student,

and a bounty of sweet things

is one of the best ways to fight the Winter doldrums.

 

hugs, JOY, and a lovely week my friends,

Kimberly

Treasures

It is beginning to feel as though flea market season will never return.

 

To keep my treasure hunting skills well exercised,

I make occasional jaunts to the local thrift store,

a favorite "junque" store,

and the antiques malls.

 

These were the goodies I found in January.

LOVE these wax flowers and resin crosses!

 

Hoping that you find something to treasure this weekend.

 

hugs and JOY,

Kimberly

Flea Market Friday

Just taking a moment to share some of my wonderful sepia treasures unearthed in July. How much do I love the pic of the faerie-cupid!

Beautiful old tintype photos, vintage curtain tacks, and a pile of lace. My idea of heaven!

I never have enough old white buttons!

These glamour gals will be used for Halloween. I hate to do it, but I'll be turning someone's great granny into a witch this year!

I am linking this post to Lemoncholy's
Flea Market Friday's.

Scroll down to the next post for today's 50 Day Birthday Bash Giveaway!

Happy Friday &
enJOY Your Blessings,
Kimberly

This Week's Treasure Hunt

Tuesday morning junque hunt was successful.

This little Flower Girl doll came in her original box, you have to love the uni-brow.

Just love old wood boxes, pretty labels inside and out on this cigar box.

More dolls and a porcelain figure. Let's get down to brass tacks, Junking is fun! (sorry)

These fasteners are really neat and the box is crying out to be altered.

This is my first face cup purchase, I have been admiring them for quite a while now, but the $1.00 price tag was too good to resist, wink, wink.

Thanks for visiting today &

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Pretty Pink Sleeping Bebe - Tuesday Treasure #7

This precious sleeping baby Frozen Charlotte is a priceless focal point for this wall plaque perfect in any new baby girl's nursery. Vintage wallpaper, buttons, and lace, along with wire, paper roses, beads, and scrapbook papers are all that was needed to capture the priceless innocence of a sleeping infant.
The pretty pink lace and vintage doll were part of my Tuesday Junque Treasures, and I have several of the baby dolls available in my supply shop.
enJOY Your Blessings,
Kimberly

Welcome Little One Card For Baby - Tuesday Treasures #5

I stripped that little doll bare, but wait until you see what I did with his head, yikes! A page from a vintage children's book for a background, a tag, stamped and tied with vintage seam binding, twine for a clothesline, and 2 toy clothes pins are all it took to create this sweetness. True confessions time: the clothes pins I purchased on Tuesday are green and didn't match the rest of the card, so I substituted a couple of blue ones. I have sets of 24 on these vintage toy pins in my supply shop.
You can checkout the collection of junque-hunting treasures I am drawing off of in my earlier post .
Thanks for popping in & have a beautiful Sunday.
enJOY Your Blessings,
Kimberly

A Timely Card For Dad - Tuesday Treasure #4

This little doll's vest was in a mixed bag of doll bits and just too darned cute, but it needed a little love. A few doll-sized buttons and a plastic boutonniere were just what was called for. Antique paper with clock images, a vintage measuring tape and watch-face, metal letters, twill tape and some zig-zag stitching and I have my Dad's Fathers Day card ready nearly 2 months early-I'm sure that's some sort of record.
You can check out the before picture of all my treasures here. It's not really all too different from a Where's Waldo puzzle.
enJOY Your Blessings,
Kimberly

French Dresser Tray - Tuesday Treasure #3

This tray was kismet. The idea for this piece was floating around in my head before my Tuesday Hunt, and behold, the picture frame was at the thrift store for $1.00. Antique French text, vintage lace, transparencies from ARTchix, vintage buttons and clock-face, a vintage photo from my collection, and antique Victorian scrap were all arranged and preserved under glass.

The underside is covered in velvet paper and 4 sweet feet created from metal doo-dads and acrylic beads elevate the tray. Be sure to check out the picture of the unloved picture frame in this post.
enJOY Your Blessings,
Kimberly